- Date
- May 2, 1992, 14:46 local (21:46 UTC)
- Place
- Corona, CA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N666CMBeech A23-24
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920502013019A
- Case key
- 27424
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Probable cause
1) The flying pilot's improper landing flare which resulted in a hard landing and significant damage to the aircraft empennage flight controls, 2) the flying pilot's decision to initiate a go around with the obvious serious damage to the aircraft, and 3) the flying pilot's inability to control the aircraft in pitch due to the damage sustained in the hard landing. A factor in the accident was the pilots lack of experience in the accident airplane.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
A student pilot was in the left seat of his newly purchased aircraft and a private pilot occupied the right seat. The investigation was unable to determine who was flying the aircraft at the time of the accident. The pilots initiated a go around after a hard landing which sheared off the left main landing gear, broke the nose gear strut, and damaged the horizontal stabilizer. Witnesses stated that the climb rate and the airspeed appeared to be very low, and that the left horizontal stabilizer appeared to be bent down. According to witnesses, during the cross wind and down wind legs, the airplane was making abrupt pitch changes and never attained altitudes of more than 300 to 500 feet AGL. While on a close in down wind leg, the airplane struck an industrial building which is approximately 100 feet higher than the runway surface. The student pilot had just traded another airplane for the accident airplane which had just had an annual inspection and was signed off as unairworthy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N666CM
- Reported as
- Beech A23-24
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MA-62
- Airframe hours
- 4,467
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A2B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Nix,William J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1992
- Departed
- RIR · Riverside, CA
- Destination
- L66 · Corona, CA
- Airport
- L66 · Corona Municipal, runway 25, 3,200 × 60 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 65 total · 27 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CNO, 5 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.